Deferred Payment Agreements Report, England - 2019-20

Regionally, the South East reported the highest number (540) of concluded DPAs that were fully recovered, which is 17.4% of all DPAs that were fully recovered in England.

The London region reported the lowest number (160) fully recovered DPAs, amounting to 5.1% of the England total.

Source: DPA collection, 2019-20, NHS Digital – see Table 1 in the Reference Data Tables

This varies regionally, with the West Midlands region having the lowest (38.3%) and London having the highest proportion (60.6%) concluding due to the death of the holder.

Source: DPA collection, 2019-20, NHS Digital – see Table 6 in the Reference Data Tables

For the 1,445 DPAs that concluded due to the death of the holder, 26.3% (380) had been in place for more than 36 months.

Of the DPAs that concluded during the lifetime of the holder, 29.4% (485) had been in place for six months or less.

Whilst overall, 46.6% of DPAs conclude due to the death of the holder, the longer the duration of the DPA, the higher this proportion is (32.9% due to death in 6 months or less, increasing to 64.1% concluding due to death after 36 months).

Source: DPA collection, 2019-20, NHS Digital – see Table 7 in the Reference Data Tables

Recovery was attempted against 30 of these. There was a partial recovery from 15 DPAs with a value of £750,000.